Monday, December 30, 2013

Christmas morning was great! I LOVE Christmas with kids, I love their excitement about everything.

We saw what Santa brought, the girls had a bowl of cereal, and then we started opening gifts.

We were all surprised and thankful and happy!

The girls got a desk from Santa. They were SOOOOO excited.
It is up in their room now and looks great. It needs a bit of touch up paint and some sealant on the top, but that will probably get done while they are at school.

Molly got a toy vacuum. Her reaction was really cute. She was really happy and excited, but was acting shy about being excited.

I didn't take many pictures of the actual present opening, and I didn't take any pictures of the girls with their gifts.
Molly was overwhelmed by the present unwrapping and I was trying to keep her busy a lot of the time.
She did get a sleeping bag from Grandma and Grandpa Bishop and Ashlee crawled in with her to show her how it worked.

Caitlin asked for ear muffs, but got an ear warmer instead and LOVES it. She wears it all the time.

Molly is pretty sure the Annie is also her mother.

Molly got an aqua-doodle that is so great. It is drawing with only water, so there is no mess! Perfect!
Even Caitlin and Ashlee like to use it.

G & G Bishop and Great Grandma Garrett left about noon, after we finished our big Christmas breakfast. After that the girls played with their new play dough, which they also love.

That ends our Christmas pictures, but even without pictures we know we had a great day!

This year I made night shirt pajamas instead of pajama pants (except of Molly because the pattern didn't go small enough, although I did make her pants and shirt as well). It was alot of work, and took most of my free time in December. But they turned out great, and were comfortable! The girls (and Annie!) had a night shirt with leggings, and Chris had a shirt and pant set.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

I also popped popcorn for Ashlee's class for their Christmas movie party the next day.

December 19th
Some friends from Laramie were driving through on their way to Utah, so we had them over for dinner.
The girls also had lots of celebrating at school, since it was their last day before Christmas break.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

December 13th
Our friends, Brook and Jen, had their annual ugly sweater party for the adults.
We didn't take any pictures (I will have to steal some later), but it was great fun! We really look forward to this event every year.

December 14th
Chris, Caitlin and Ashlee went to the Broadway Theater in town and watched the polar express. They got a bag of goodies after it was over (candy cane, train whistle, etc) and had a special visit from Santa Clause!

Molly is still to little to sit through a movie, plus it was during nap time, so she and I stayed home.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

I played (well, tried to play....they were hard arrangements) and Chris sang. Caitlin joined in from time to time, Ashlee sat on the floor under the piano and complained that her belly hurt, and Molly ran around. Obviously, a very successful activity (read with ALOT of sarcasm).

That night I made some Christmas trees for us to hand out to a few people.
Very cute, kind of time consuming, but very easy.

December 12th
Snowman pancakes!
Chris made them for breakfast this morning.